THE DUNEDIN MURDER CASE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2905, 15 January 1884, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN MURDER CASE.

' .. (Br Tbmobapß.) ! :! ■ ' .i ■ , The charge of murder 1 again#t^rm. Prtiro* for taving stabbed Matilda Hancock has oc> \ cupied the Supreme Court all Any. The 1 enderico wse muoh tbe same as given at the p. inquest. but> was stronger against the prisoner, . as a witnoi* named Freeman deposed ths4 . prisoner bud ' admitted ■to him having . committed this deed, ; miying that he r bad struck th«i' wdmao whan ', 'im bad t provoked him, hat did not intend to 'kill her. > To a deleotive fearco had' al*» 'admitted f having thr6wn the knife with which be did a tho deed into ths' bay. His Honor summed s up stronfly against the prisoner, telling thi lury he could se* no evidemocf of thb provoool c ti»n which woui:d reduce the orlm* ' U> maty d tlsugbter. He added that a redomm«nd* ;e tion to entity would no dedbt haVj se dee weight. At seveo o'olock the jury retdrnW l- Id ask wbethei- a verdjflt of mailsUnghtej g wduld be J acoiipted, staWog thejr ; weto'ol f. opinion' tho pritoDsr had ilon* the 1 de6d wjthi r, oct premeditation. His Honor diredted tliefa le tbat tbe absenot of pretrtodi^fttion Wooldjioi to ttl 'ne redaoe thii crime to menslaughfet; TbpJ ale oo»coD«ideriDg » rerdlct. ' ' ■

: ■ -■ ■_•. I AI'KK. The jury m the murder rase were loose up all night. The foreman said there teeme not Ihe slightest possibility, Of the jury agrci